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October 14, 2016
Question

Deskewing (only) in Professional XI

  • October 14, 2016
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Hi all,

I refer to my previous post Deskewing scanned pdf with Professional XI which was closed with the news that in future versions there would be the option to deskew only, without any other optimization, to keep the original as is.

I am monitoring the release notes but, if I am not wrong, this feature has not been implemented yet and I have now 11.0.17

Please let me know if it is still planned and when I can expect it.

Thank you in advance for your reply

Sergio

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Participant
November 15, 2024

Hello, there is a tool in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI 11.0.23 (the version I have). Open the PDF file of interest and go to Tools to the right side of the page. What  you need is "Document Processing", but possibly you will not see it. To add it to the list, click the drop down to the upper right side of the Tools box and choose "Document Processing" by ticking it. In the list under "Document Processing", choose "Optimize Scanned PDF". Maybe you will need to go to Edit in the window which apepars and activate Deskew (turn it On). There is also an "OCR Option". I hope this helps you.  

Karl Heinz  Kremer
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Community Expert
October 14, 2016

Your original question was not closed - you can still post in the thread. Somebody selected an answer as the "correct" answer - this may have been you, but it could also be that Adobe staff did that.

All the staff person promised was to submit a feature request - that does not mean that there is actually a plan to implement this feature. All feature requests are analyzed and prioritized (and sometimes closed without an action), but there is no promise that such a feature will eventually get implemented.

You may want to take a look at your scanner software (the one that came with your scanner) to see if that has a way to deskew scans. You could then scan to an image format (e.g. 600dpi TIFF images), and import these TIFF images into Acrobat and then perform all the enhancements that would have been done when scanning directly into Acrobat as a second step.

October 17, 2016

Thank you for your reply.

I guess the implementation would be really simple, the routine is already available, all what is needed is a button and the link.

It would be really a serious improvement, at least for me.

My scanner does not deskew, unfortunately; moreover doing TIFF for hundreds of pages is not friendly, I scan for backups and I can not work hours for that.

Best regards

Karl Heinz  Kremer
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 17, 2016

You can certainly file a feature request with Adobe - the more requests they receive for a certain feature, the more likely is probably is that it will get implemented. You can file such a request here: Feature Request/Bug Report Form